Is that a light? Down there, at the end of the tunnel?

It just might be.

Yes, maybe there are some signs of light at last in the deep dark hole that has swallowed up the local home-building industry for the last…

The market for new homes in St. Louis is still searching for a bottom. But it may be getting closer to finding one.

Permits to build new single-family houses in seven Missouri counties fell 11.4 percent in June, compared to the…

After this news earlier in the week of a 17 percent jump in housing starts and a 4 percent increase in building permits in May, there were hopes that a turnaround is near in the home construction market.

But not just yet…

After he breakfasts with the Economic Development Center of St. Charles County on Tuesday, Elliot Eisenberg will lunch with local home builders.

The chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, Eisenberg is the featured speaker at a lunch with the…

The housing market in St. Charles County is in transition, and it’ll be the subject of the latest economic development summit held by the Economic Development Center of St. Charles County, on Tuesday, June 2 at Old Hickory Golf Club…

We got some new building permits data today from the Home Builders Association of St. Louis & Eastern Mo.

First, a spot of good news. More permits were issued in February - 214* - than in any month since October. This…

The Home Builders Association has just sent its members an e-mail, much of it in bold, urging them to make it a TOP PRIORITY to contact by noon Thursday at least two state senators from the St. Louis area.

What’s the fuss? Patrick Sullivan,…

Considering the unseasonably nice weather, Building Blocks was a bit surprised to find a big crowd this afternoon at the annual St. Louis Builders Home & Garden Show.

Instead of enjoying the outdoors, hundreds of people wandered among the dozens of…

Home builders are in the dumps, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be coming out of it any time soon.

The National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo put out their monthly home builder sentiment index today and found basically…

Year-end building permit data is out from the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri. And, as expected, the numbers were grim.

Permits for new home construction fell 44% from 2007 to 2008 in seven counties on the Missouri…